‘Why did your Meeting grow?’ ask Friends

'If your meeting has grown, what has helped it do so? If it has declined, is there any clue to what caused the change?’

by Rebecca Hardy 16th April 2021

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is investigating why some Meetings grow and others decline. The consideration follows an analysis of the Tabular Statement, the annual report of all Quakers in Britain, which reveals that ‘between 2009 and 2019, 105 local meetings – a quarter of our society – grew in size’.